There, The Public Advertiser of January 2, 1754, announced, marriages were performed “with the utmost privacy, decency, and regularity, the expense not more than one guinea, the five shilling stamp included.
— from The Law's Lumber Room (Second Series) by Francis Watt

It was hunted, trapped, and shot at all seasons, and is likely to vanish from the earth unless it can be propagated under partial domestication and restored to its former habitat.
— from The Mentor: Game Birds of America, Vol. 1, Num. 34, Serial No. 34 by Edward Howe Forbush

The Russian Minister, Stoeckl, early declared the Union permanently destroyed, and regretting the fact, yet hoped the North would soon accept the inevitable and seek close co-operation with the South in commerce and in foreign relations.
— from Great Britain and the American Civil War by Ephraim Douglass Adams

These characters were shown to have been inherited from the mother and to have undergone progressive development as regards the number of missing vertebrae and the proportion of individuals with rudimentary tails.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann